The medical anthropologist Richard Parker, professor at Columbia University, examines the social and political aspects of HIV/AIDS in Latin America.

The field with the largest proportional expansion was environmental history.

Magali Romero Sá, Deputy Director of Research at Fiocruz, explains the main issues to be addressed in the conference “Public Health and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean”.

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Perla Bruno analiza momentos distintos de las colonias de vacaciones para niños en Buenos Aires: de la lucha antituberculosa al fomento del turismo social a fines de 1940.

This new issue features 19 articles about different aspects of health and science.

In the editor’s note of the new issue of HCSM, Marcos Cueto and André Cândido da Silva discuss the importance of the Declaration on Primary Health Care and show their concern about the future of Brazilian journals.

This UNAIDS book tells the stories of 12 African mothers living with HIV and their children born free of the virus.